Letter to Karl Kautsky, September 6, 1885

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 6 September 1885


First published, in Russian, in Marx-Engels Archives, Vol. I (VI), Moscow, 1932
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN LONDON

[Jersey,] 6 September 1885

Dear Kautsky,

We leave here[1] on Thursday[2] and therefore hope to see you both at our house on Sunday as usual. The Volks-Zeitung and[3] received with thanks. The chap wants to ingratiate himself with his papa.[4] The latter, however, has better things to do. Not content with having created a French republic in 1870,[5] he must now do his utmost to create a Spanish one.[6] I hope he succeeds. What jackasses these great men are!

Kindest regards to your wife and yourself from all of us.

Your

F.E.

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 325.
  2. ↑ 10 September
  3. ↑ This may refer to one of Louis Viereck's articles (Viereck = square in German).
  4. ↑ 440
  5. ↑ 92
  6. ↑ 441